Devotional Hindi Literature: A Critical Edition of the Panc-Vani or Five Works of Dadu, Kabir, Namdev, Raidas, Hardas with the Hindi Songs of Gorakhnath and Sundardas, and a Complete Word-index, 2 vols.

• Author: Entwistle, Alan W.

This two-volume set will be of use to anyone interested in early Hindi language and literature, especially the work of the Sant poets. The first volume contains the Devanagari text of the collected songs (pad) and didactic couplets (sakhi) of the five poets whose works feature in the Panc-Vani anthologies that were compiled by followers of Dadu, the sixteenth-century Rahasthani saint. This is not a collation of Panc-Vani material but a compilation of a wider range of poetry ascribed to the five poets, with the addition of verse attributed to Gorakhnath (since it is frequently int or...